Land granted under Aboriginal title is inalienable; it can not be bought, sold, traded or given away.
The land trust is the organisation appointed by the community to legally hold the title deeds.
Several states and territories have enacted laws to establish Aboriginal land trusts, but not all.
An Aboriginal Lands Trust existed in New South Wales in the 1960s and into the 1970s, a body of which Lyall Munro Snr was a member, among others.
This Bill was introduced by Don Dunstan, who was then South Australia’s Attorney-General and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and who later became Premier.
[7][8] The other two Aboriginal landholding authorities in the state are Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) and Maralinga Tjarutja, also statutory bodies.